81 Applicants To Contest In By way of-Elections To eight Meeting Seats In Gujarat
By way of-elections to eight Meeting seats in Gujarat is scheduled to be hung on November 3 (Representational)
Ahmedabad:
A complete 81 applicants are contesting in by-elections to 8 seats in Gujarat to be hung on November 3, the Election Fee mentioned nowadays.
By way of-elections in Abdasa, Limbdi, Morbi, Dhari, Gadhada, Karjan, Dang and Kaprada seats have been necessitated after the sitting Congress MLAs resigned.
Monday used to be the closing date for withdrawal of nomination paperwork.
Out of 102 nominations gained via the Election Fee for 8 seats, 21 paperwork have been withdrawn until Monday, leaving 81 applicants within the fray, a unlock from the place of job of the Leader Electoral Officer mentioned.
Limbdi has the very best selection of 14 applicants, whilst Kaprada, reserved for Scheduled Tribes (ST) applicants, has the bottom selection of 4 applicants.
As in step with the discharge, 12 applicants every are within the fray in Morbi and Gadhada seats, adopted via 11 in Dhari, 10 in Abdasa, and 9 every in Karjan and Dang.
Applicants of the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress are pitted towards every different in the entire 8 seats.
The Bharatiya Tribal Party has additionally fielded two applicants – in Dang, which is reserved for Scheduled Tribes applicants, and Karjan.
Lesser-known outfits just like the Bahujan Maha Party, Bahujan Mukti Party, Bharatiya Jana Parishad, Akhil Bharatiya Rajarya Sabha, All India Majlish-e-Inqulab-e-Millat, Rashtravadi Jana Chetna, Yuva Jan Jagruti, Vyavastha Parivartan Party, and Rashtriya Jankranti Party have additionally fielded one or two applicants in probably the most seats.
A complete of 51 independents also are within the fray.
The BJP has fielded Pradyumnsinh Jadeja (Abdasa), Kiritsinh Rana (Limbdi), Brijesh Merja (Morbi), J V Kakadiya (Dhari), Atmaram Parmar (Gadhada), Akshay Patel (Karjan), Vijay Patel (Dang) and Jitubhai Chaudhary (Kaprada).
Those applicants come with 5 former Congress MLAs who resigned from the opposition party and joined the BJP.
The Congress applicants for the bypolls are Shantilal Sendhani (Abdasa), Chetan Khachar (Limbdi), Jayantilal Patel (Morbi), Suresh Kotadiya (Dhari), Mohan Solanki (Gadhada), Kiritsinh Jadeja (Karjan), Suryakant Gavit (Dang) and Babubhai Patel (Kaprada).
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